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Joker Folie à Deux | A Different Man + Aaron Schimberg | Chained For Life (2019)

On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss the return of Joker in Folie À Deux, the identity crisis fable A Different Man and spoke to its director Aaron Schimberg, and for film club, we revisited his previous collaboration with Adam Pearson in Chained For Life.

20 Hidden Gems at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival

by Little White Lies

Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from outside the main gala and competition strands.

A Different Man review – an atmospheric, idiosyncratic thriller

by Hannah Strong

Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are an excellent double act in Aaron Schimberg’s effective sophomore feature.

A third predator in these woods: Gone Girl at 10

by Riley Rogers

A decade after its release, David Fincher’s thrilling adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel about a woman scorned retains its unnerving power.

Joker: Folie à Deux review – a grim karaoke session

by Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

The Tokyo International Film Festival has unveiled its full line-up

by Little White Lies

Japan’s biggest film festival returns with a line-up of 110 films for its 37^th edition.

What’s going on with movie musicals?

by Niamh Dunne

They look bad, they sound bad, and sometimes directors won’t even admit they’ve made a musical at all. What on earth is happening to this once lucrative genre?

When did British comedy get so twee?

by Katherine Lenahan

As Shaun of the Dead turns 20, we chart the steady decline of humour in mainstream British filmmaking.

Francis Ford Copolla Special + San Sebastian

On Truth & Movies this week, it’s a Francis Ford Coppola Special in honour of his long-gestating passion project Megalopolis finally coming to the screen. We hear from David Jenkins about the San Sebastian Film Festival and look at two of Copolla’s previous works, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Tucker: The Man And His Dream.

The Outrun review – sensationally directed and performed

by Katherine McLaughlin

Saoirse Ronan stars as a young woman battling alcoholism on the Orkney Isles in Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrott’s bestselling memoir.